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Name: Claire Doyle on Jan 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Joanne Harrison on Jan 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Richard Jones on Jan 19, 2013Comments: Extremely disappointed that Tudor Grange are intent on letting down its local community. This is absolutely wrong. Where is the school's social conscience. The governors are more intent on creating a business than serving local youngsters.Flag
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Name: Vivien Hargreaves on Jan 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Sarah Hall on Jan 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Jason Scagell on Jan 19, 2013Comments: I am a very local resident to the school living around 200 yards away with a child who is due to start secondary school in September 2014. The revised admissions policy which will prioritise two faith junior schools in the entry criteria to a multi-faith secondary school is to the clear disadvantage of more local residents who will be impacted both by reduced chance of admission and also by the additional traffic consequences of people attending from further afield. This really is a disappointing way to reward the patience of local residents who already have to put up with an intense and frenetic drop off and pick up routine around the school and nearby roads. These changes go against natural justice and when you consider the entry criteria of the two junior schools positively discriminate in favour of Christian faith which is highly questionable for a non-faith/multi faith school. I also question whether people really understand the intense pressure parents are under to get the best schooling for their children and the likely increase in popularity at these potential feeder schools if this decision is unheld. One only needs to look at the discrepancy between dwindling attendance at the two respective churches and the flourishing subscription to St Alphege school in particular to understand the consequences of this type of niaive action.Flag
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Name: Avninder Kaur on Jan 19, 2013Comments: This is a disgrace - I saw this proposal in the solihull news by chance. Even though my son goes to this school - and I have a daughter who I want to go to this school in 4 years time I have not been informed. I bought my house 2 years ago so my children could go to this school.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 19, 2013Comments: I believe this potential change would be very unfair to local children. Tudor Grange has always served the local community well and should continue to do this. By allocating places to those children further away, not only will this take a fantastic educational opportunity away from children in the local community but it will clog up the local roads with unneccessary traffic (as these children won't be close enough to walk!). I sincerely hope this proposal does not go ahead. We live within easy walking distance and, following this proposal would be denied the opportunity for our child to attend.Flag
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Name: Donna Coombs on Jan 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 20, 2013Comments: We know a number of families who have attended church briefly, just to get their children into St Alphege school. St Alphege is our closest school, but we were not prepared to do this, and our children attend the catchment area primary school. To now find that all the hypocritical, dishonest parents will automatically secure a place for their children at Tudor Grange as well! Where does this leave honest families living in the Tudor Grange catchment area? It's disgraceful.Flag
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Name: Julia Creaton on Jan 20, 2013Comments: Very disappointed that Tudor Grange is favouring children who have attended faith schools. Families if all faiths and those of no faith should be treated equally in admissions. Tudor Grange is our local catchment secondary school and it should provide a high quality education to all children in the community. This looks like covert selection on the basis of faith.Flag
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Name: Julie Longstaff on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Jodie Hunt on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Julie Bourne on Jan 20, 2013Comments: With a child at Hockley Heath Primary, Tudor Grange is our catchment school.Flag
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Name: David Pearson on Jan 20, 2013Comments: Acadamy education facilities should not be allowed this type of selection proceedureFlag
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Name: Christine Pearson on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Rosemarie Hughes on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Gordon Hughes on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Mike Smith on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Victoria Johnson on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 20, 2013Comments: Not a surprise- TGA likes to be dominant & distinctive. What are the motivations? Allows selection on grounds of ethnicity & social class- children attending these two schools will be mainly ‘White’ & of course more affluent. Seem to be afraid Solihull schools will become majority ‘ethnic minority’ like South Birmingham ones. Standards will apparently drop, TGA will no longer achieve results it prides itself on. St James becoming popular with 'White' South B’ham parents who claim to like small classes but really want a colour free enviroment. Arden School is also proposing its own admissions procedure, one which will favour its staff & 4 junior/primary schools, 3 of which are Christian faith schools. As a family from an ethnic minority who are not Christian where does this leave the likes of us? The impact on local schools will be dire. What happens to Sharman’s Cross, Shirley Heath, Widney etc & their linked infant schools. Good schools that will suffer. It will spread across Solihull because other schools will need to react to these changes and make themselves more appealing and distinctive but how? What is the point of a catchment area if it doesn’t have priority? I moved to the catchment area so that my children would get to the school. Blatantly unfair that Birmingham residents will get a place but my youngest child won't. It seems that TGA are hell-bent on global domination and becoming a brand-name and in all that the leadership seem to have forgotten that they are a school within a mixed community! We all need to write to the school and make sure our voices are heard.Flag
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Name: Claire Richards on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Ian Nash on Jan 20, 2013Comments: Unfair to other good schools in the local area, an elitist policy!Flag
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Name: Tracie Pal on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Nic Houslip on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Mrs King on Jan 20, 2013Comments: This is decision will take TG away from the local community. It will also leave children in the local area who fail to get in to TG, having to travel on buses to schools outside their catchment. Children who have places at St A and St J, but live in Bham, Henley in Arden etc, will be travelling long distances and taking places from children who live within walking distance of TG. As a former pupil of TG, I have fond memories of being able to walk with friends who lived close by. Where will the catchment children, who do not get offered a place, go to school??Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 20, 2013Comments: This will have an obvious knock on to the whole borough. Not sure if much thought has gone into this. No consultation with parents whatsoever, they obviously feel they are bigger than the school itself!! If it's not broke.........Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 20, 2013Comments: This has been done on the quiet and is totally unfair and not representative of the local community. As a result some children in the immediate catchment area may face travel to other schools outside their catchment as there would be no guarantee of a place at Alderbrook for instance. People make life style choices based on schooling. Tudor Grange shouldn't just change the goalposts to suit their own needs rather than the community they support and which has supported them in being the successful Academy it is today.Flag
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Name: Paul Clarke on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Jenny Parkes on Jan 20, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Gary & Sally Steele on Jan 20, 2013Comments: Very concerned as currently our Daughter attends Sharmans Cross School. We live within the catchment area and we are disappointed that the boundaries can be moved so easily. It would appear that no consideration has been made for extra time and travel that children living within the current catchment area will have to undertake if 130 less places are available to the local catchment.Flag
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Name: Sally Steele on Jan 20, 2013Comments: We currently live in the catchment area for TGA & have 1 child at the school & another at Sharmans Cross. Having looked at the SMBC online maps, I am extremely disappointed that TGA would offer spaces to children who currently live outside the catchment over those closer to school. If the 130 spaces are taken up by St James' & St Alphege pupils, has any thought been given to where those children in catchment should go to school & the travelling to a school further away? Surely there are safetly impications? Can schools cherry pick their pupils this way?Flag
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Name: Jennifrr Dandrra on Jan 20, 2013Comments: This will be unfair and result in children (a) travelling unnecessarily to school and (b) more people faking religion!Flag
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Name: Zoe Jameson-Vongprachanh on Jan 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Mark Whitehouse on Jan 21, 2013Comments: Sneaky!Flag
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Name: Robert Bining on Jan 21, 2013Comments: I have been a resident of Solihull for over 20years and my children have benefitted from Education in the burgh. It is appalling that this attempt to change admission arrangements is even being considered. It is totally unfairFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Lucy Hardingham on Jan 21, 2013Comments: Please keep it as it is.Flag
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Name: Joanne Cantello on Jan 21, 2013Comments: I object to the proposed changes for your admissions policy, it will no doubt change the dynamics of the school intake for Solihull with negative consequences for pupils in the area. I believe students should be ale to go to their local school based on nearest distance, otherwise additional excessive travel is contrary to the government aims to reduce carbon emissions by 2050.Flag
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Name: Sarah Tucker on Jan 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Ben Vongprachanh on Jan 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Susan Howard on Jan 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Anthony Howard on Jan 21, 2013Comments: a very disappointing attitude to the local community from a school that should know better and ought to recognise the value of working with its neighboursFlag
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Name: Emma Clarke on Jan 21, 2013Comments: One very disappointed parent who believes that a child has the right to go to their local catchment school. How can it be right for children to get into the school who live further away and then we as parents have to drive past the school to take our local children to a school further away. Please change these proposals - children in the catchment area need to be Priority 2.Flag
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Name: Councillor Mark Parker on Jan 21, 2013Comments: I strongly urge Tudor Grange Academy to keep its Admissions based on the Catchment Area which is Fair and Beneficial to our Children in the Community.Flag
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Name: Michelle Hardingham on Jan 21, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Jeremy Ward on Jan 21, 2013Comments:Flag